Although in this chapter we will only be using a subset of the features available in Pulp, it is intended that a viable workflow is demonstrated here that showcases why you might choose Pulp to manage Enterprise repositories, rather than rolling your own solution (for example, copying packages off an ISO as we did in Chapter 6, Custom Builds with PXE Booting). 

The process for handling RPM-based package repositories and DEB-based ones is broadly similar.

Let's start by exploring how to create and manage RPM-based repositories.